HIGHLIGHTS

The case of Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom (applications nos. 58170/13, 62322/14 and 24960/15) concerned complaints by journalists and rights organisations about three different surveillance regimes: (1) the bulk interception of communications; (2)...

On 6 Septembre 2018, the Supreme Court of India has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex. The landmark decision by five Supreme Court judges to repeal the law and legalize gay sex between consenting adults overturns Section 377 of the IPC,...

COMPARATIVE

CASE LAW

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a request by Ireland to revise a 1978 judgment and find that men detained by the United Kingdom during Northern Ireland’s civil strife suffered torture, not just inhuman and degrading treatment. Ireland made the revision...

On 27 February 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union rendered its judgment in the Case C-266/16 The Queen, on the application of Western Sahara Campaign UK v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and Secretary of State for Environment, Food...

An event "Deutsch-Japanisch-Türkischer Rechtsdialog - "Rechtsstaat und Strafrecht"" will be held in Halle, Germany on 11-13 October 2018, More information can be found via the following link : [button...